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Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce … green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air … engage in less green R&D investment, patent applications, and research staff. Industries that are heavy emitters and those …
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We study the impact of regulating product entry and quality information requirements on an oligopoly equilibrium and consumer welfare. Requiring product testing can reduce consumer uncertainty, but it also increases fixed costs of entry and time to market. Using variation between EU and US...
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these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to …
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This document aims to provide an overview of recently published guidelines regarding the usage of nanomaterials on a laboratory scale. It is intended to perform a compilation of exposure mitigation guidelines relating to laboratories that handle nanomaterials. This issue is of great importance...
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This innovative book is a compilation of state-of-the-art choice experiment studies undertaken in several European … reduction and food labeling. The book highlights how the choice experiment method can be employed to inform efficient and …Applications of the choice experiment method in Europe : a review / Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri and Yiannis Kountouris …
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values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate biodiversity risk and analyze how it varies over time. We also … construct and publicly release several firm-level measures of exposure to biodiversity risk, based on textual analyses of firms …-related funds. Exposures to biodiversity risk vary substantially across industries in a way that is economically sensible and …
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One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …
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This paper uses international survey data to document two stylized facts. First, risk aversion is associated with anti … government spending can bolster support for globalization by reducing the risk associated with it in the minds of voters …
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reasons. The main reason in the case of advanced Asia (especially Japan) appears to be higher risk-adjusted returns, whereas …
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